Geographia Polonica (2014) vol. 87, iss. 2
A world without GIS? Post-GIS futures for the New Millennium
Geographia Polonica (2014) vol. 87, iss. 2, pp. 241-250 | 
Full text
doi: https://doi.org/GPol.2014.15
Abstract
We stand on the cusp of an era when anyone with internet access can make a map. With six billion mobilephone subscribers and 2.3 billion internet users will GIS play much of a role in how make and use maps? This paper begins with this question and explores some of the dimensions of how GIS will change in a new world – a world where GIS is integral to countless online activities and hence disappears from most uses. This is world not without GIS, but a post-GIS world of ubiquitous location technologies. While many of these developments,they have negative potential and the article points to areas to consider carefully.
Keywords: GIS, information society, internet, data-driven science, ubiquitous computing
, University of Minnesota, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, MN 55455, Minneapolis: USA